Brackenhall is a district of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England located 2 miles (3 km) north of Huddersfield town centre between Fixby and Sheepridge.

[2] The estate was created in the 1930s when Huddersfield Town Council moved all residents from the rundown homes in the town centre to new estate.

[3] Since the 1960s, the estate was beset with social problems which culminated in a riot in July 1992 when police carried out a drugs raid at the Phoenix pub.

This was one of the worst disturbances which occurred in a wave of rioting across Britain during the summer of 1992, with similar disturbances also taking place in towns including Blackburn and Burnley across the Lancashire border.

[4] In 1997, the council purchased the pub and closed it down, then demolished some of the 1,050 homes on the estate, 20% of which were, at the time, unoccupied.